What's auxiliary...? - MAHENDIRAN V

 What's auxiliary...?

A word that supports to a verb in a sentence is known as auxiliary.

No verb can function in a sentence without support of an auxiliary.

There are 26 auxiliaries in English language. If listing, AM, IS, ARE, WAS, WERE.

DO, DOES, DID.

HAVE, HAS, HAD.

 BE, BEEN, BEING.

MAY, CAN, SHALL, WILL.

MIGHT, COULD, SHOULD, WOULD, MUST, OUGHT TO. 

DARE and NEED.

Of these, the first five words are known as Designated Aux cum Verb since they can function as an aux and as a verb in different situations. Also it is called as BE FORMS by some grammarians.

The second three words can also function as an aux and as a verb. But when they act as a verb it would need the support of an auxiliary. The first five is not like that. When they act as a verb they would not need an auxiliary support. 

The third three too function in the same way as said above.

The fourth three words can be acting only as an additional auxiliaries because they can't work alone unless some other auxiliary stands as a support. They too can function as a verb by getting support of auxiliaries.

The four words in the fifth section are called MODALS or Pure Auxiliaries since they can act in a sentence only as an auxiliary. No chance to function as a verb.

The six words in the sixth section are known as universal pure auxiliary or PREMIUM MODALS. These too can't act as verbs in anywhere.

Let's listen more about Auxiliaries in the next lesson.

Author: MAHENDIRAN V

MAHENDIRAN GLOBAL ENGLISH

(THIS IS A PIECE FROM MY SELF RESEARCH WORK.)